The chance to be entertained by two of Broadway’s hottest stars — and — proved to be just the ticket for making the a million-dollar record-breaker the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Claudia Miller and her husband, attorney Jim Miller, chaired the sold-outevent, choosing “Tomorrow’s Stars” as the theme for the gala that is a major source of funding for , a program that reached some 83,000 students throughout Colorado in 2015 alone.
“If we can light the fire of creativity in even one child, then we have done our job,” Jim Miller said.
Before settling into The Stage theater for classic and contemporary song stylings by O’Hara and d’Arcy James, the 900 guests enjoyed cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and silent auction bidding in the lobby of the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex and a beef tenderloin dinner from Epicurean Catering in the Seawell Grand Ballroom.
In addition to the Millers, the Saturday Night Alive leadership team included Alpine Bank regional president Norm Franke and Lisa Franke, who chaired the corporate committee, and Lyn Schaffer. Schaffer, there with her husband, Dr. Michael Schaffer, coordinated the silent auction and will chair Saturday Night Alive 2017.
Denver Center Alliance president Keri Christiansen; Kent Thompson, producing artistic director of the Denver Center Theatre Company; and Scott Shiller, the DCPA’s president and chief executive officer, circulated throughout the evening, welcoming a crowd that included U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman; Norm and Sunny Brownstein; Wiley and Gigi Kemp; Ferd and Christy Belz; and Mick and Erin Nichols.
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More online:Joanne Davidson has more about Saturday Night Alive, including Kelli O’Hara’s ties to Colorado and who was wearing what, in the Mile High Style blog. blogs.denverpost.com/style
